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Faith

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Since all that is was ever bound to be;      Since grim, eternal laws our Being bind;      And both the riddle and the answer find,      And both the carnage and the calm decree;      Since plain within the Book of Destiny      Is written all the journey of mankind      Inexorably to the end; since blind      And mortal puppets playing parts are we:      Then let's have faith; good cometh out of ill;      The power that shaped the strife shall end the strife;      Then let's bow down before the Unknown Will;      Fight on, believing all is well with life;      Seeing within the worst of War's red rage      The gleam, the glory of the Golden Age.

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